We spent a day with our niece and her husband in Porter County, Indiana. They live about a mile from Lake Michigan, surrounded by sections of Indiana Dunes National Park. During the day we went to the lake shore two or three times. It was windy, and the waves were crashing.
Our first visit was mid-morning, at Porter Beach. Those are Ring-billed Gulls.
My niece and I went to the Portage Lakefront mid-afternoon. We could see Chicago in the distance across the water. While we were there, a lake freighter passed in front of the skyline.
We went back to Porter Lakefront at sunset. This time I think the gulls were Herrings.
Sunset over one of the steel mills that line the lake.
The view as we were leaving.
The next morning (Sunday), we drove through Chicago on our way to Wisconsin. Shortly after I took this photo, we had to get off the Dan Ryan because the police had it blocked for reasons we never discovered. We drove about six blocks through the south side, then got back on without incident.
